(Table 1) Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) density and abundance, and pod characteristics in west Greenland waters

• Main Authors: Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter, Laidre, Kristin L, Borchers, David, Marques, Tiago A, H Stern, M Simon
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Store Hellefiske Bank; Baffin; Beluga; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; inuit; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/w9gk2b; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/dce9d059-20e7-40c2-9dc0-2c5707d3db3b

An aerial survey was conducted to estimate the abundance of belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) on their wintering ground in West Greenland in March-April 2006 and 2008. The survey was conducted as a double platform aerial line transect survey, and sampled approximately 17% of the total survey area of c...